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The Sound of Music Story: How A Beguiling Young Novice, A Handsome Austrian Captain, and Ten Singing Von Trapp Children Inspired the Most Beloved Film of All Time
By Santopietro, Tom
- ISBN
- 9781250064462 9781466870598
- Publisher
- St. Martin's
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Reviewed on April 1, 2015 | Arts and Humanities
This underdog story begins with Maria Augusta von Trapp (1905–87), the nun-turned-nanny whose best-selling The Story of the Trapp Family Singers led to a successful Broadway adaptation, The Sound of Music. This is also the story of West Side Story director Robert Wise (1914–2005), who reluctantly signed on as producer and director after Ben-Hur director William Wyler unexpectedly departed. Wise hired his West Side Story cohorts Ernest Lehman and Saul Chaplin as screenwriter and vocal arr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
